There doesn't seem to be a thread for Pressure Point so I thought I'd start one.

Trouble with this episode is that everything of interest - Gan dying, the revelation about control - seems to happen in the last ten minutes. So the previous fourty minutes are a bit hard to get excited about!

Still, here goes...

The scenes with Servalan (now routinely being refered to by name by everyone) and Kasabi are very good indeed and offer more insight into the Supreme Commanders background. Her ambiguous reaction to Kasabi's child seems to foreshadow the twisted maternal instincts she showed in Children of Auron.

The explanation for Avon agreeing to along with Blake's plan are interesting but it seems there's more to it than simple greed. His mockery of Blake is never more cutting than when he slow claps him, but he also seems to understand him better than the others. Avon is the first to suspect that Blake is lying.

Everything still comes back to the finale though and it is undoubtadly very clever. Gan dies basically because Blake wanted to break into an empty room. If the intention was to shake up the audience then it certainly succeded. Especially as for first time viewers, this must have initially seemed like just another run around.

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Everyone seems to think that Gan died for nothing, because Control was empty. However, in military terms, the information was very valuable, because it would mean no more lives would be lost as no doubt Blake would have spread the word that Control was in fact a lure. And if he didn't, Veron certainly would._________________"Now then, Butch Harry, tell us about Fulham..."

Everyone seems to think that Gan died for nothing, because Control was empty. However, in military terms, the information was very valuable, because it would mean no more lives would be lost as no doubt Blake would have spread the word that Control was in fact a lure. And if he didn't, Veron certainly would.

I've never thought of it like that. Yes, I suppose his death did achieve something. It's quite archetypal really, the 'gentle giant' and 'loyal friend' dying to save his friends.

It could certainly be argued that the events here set both Blake and Travis on the path to Star One. There's quite a theme running through Blake of quests that lead nowhere isn't there? Blakewanted to destrOy computer control but ended up trying to protect it against the Andromedans. Servalan only got the Liberator when it was dying.And of course the rebellion starts and ends with a roomfull of corpses.

In a way this episode is a microcosm of the bleak themes running thru the series as a whole.

An ex of mine I introduced the show to blurted out "hey is Gan going to die?" around the Church scene. They lay on the Gan lines quite heavily compared to his previous outings.

I didn't suspect it. When he says "I'm a bit out of condition" in the Church I probably put it down to him having the limiter. He's physically the strongest and everyone on the Liberator likes Gan so it comes as a bit of a shock.